AI Platform Engineer Lead – Production & Reliability

Arm; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 126,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm in Cambridge is seeking a hands‑on technical leader to build and operate the central AI control plane, ensuring production‑grade reliability for AI services at scale. You will work across Kubernetes, cloud, identity, secrets, networking, telemetry and incident management to provide the production foundation for Arm’s AI platform.

Join a role that emphasizes automation, secure runtime patterns, and incident response, with a hybrid working model and strong growth opportunities within a leading

Qualifications

• Expert level experience deploying and operating production infrastructure in a Linux environment with Kubernetes.
• Strong security fundamentals for production platforms including identity, secrets and access control.
• Familiar with AI platform concepts such as MCP servers and LLM observability.
• Strong automation and scripting skills (Terraform, Go, Python).
• Experience in incident management and production readiness practices.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership - become a recognised expert and lead engineer on Arm AI platform tech.
• Build, operate and improve production infrastructure for Arm AI platform services.
• Own reliability, monitoring, alerting, incident response and runbooks.
• Develop automation for provisioning, deployment, configuration, backup and upgrades.
• Implement secure runtime patterns including identity, network controls and auditability.
• Contribute to platform roadmap planning and prioritisation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Security fundamentals

Automation scripting

AI platform concepts

Incident management

OpenAI tools / APIs

Tools

Terraform

Go

Python

CI/CD / GitOps tooling

Job description

Arm in Cambridge is seeking a hands‑on technical leader to build and operate the central AI control plane, ensuring production‑grade reliability for AI services at scale. You will work across Kubernetes, cloud, identity, secrets, networking, telemetry and incident management to provide the production foundation for Arm’s AI platform.

Join a role that emphasizes automation, secure runtime patterns, and incident response, with a hybrid working model and strong growth opportunities within a leading